![]() As such, Scheckel’s sharp reading of U.S. popular culture and policy debates, thus underscoring how American Indians still “frame the meaning of the nation” (151). Though focused on the early nation, The Insistence of the Indian directs us toward the continued persistence of the “Indian” in U.S. legal and cultural texts staged efforts to pin down shifting and unstable boundaries of national identity. In this nuanced analysis, Scheckel links (although does not fully tease out) the “gendered construction of citizenry” enacted in this artwork with the construction of maternal and sexualized roles for Euro-American and Native American women in the other national origin stories covered in the book (139). ![]() history through its representation of Capitol commemorative artworks of American Indians which “made the political exclusion of Indians seem natural and necessary” (129). Capitol visitor between the 18.30s and 1860s, enlisted citizens in a larger drama of U.S. For example, she offers a mas terful reading ofhow guidebooks, produced for the U.S. In her strongest chapters, Scheckel reveals not only the inter play of popular and official rhetoric about Indians, but the interplay of gender and race in the construction of national identity. 4 WINTER 2 0 01 narrative, Black Hawk’s “autobiography,” and guidebooks and artwork in the U.S. ![]() In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Ĥ 3 2 WAL 3 5. ![]()
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